Air India Cover Up

[buddasingh]

From MacLeans magazine March 18, 05...

Former MP John Nunziata, who was the solicitor general critic when the bombings happened, said he repeatedly called on the government to have an inquiry.

"They kept using the criminal investigation as an excuse," said Nunziata, now a Toronto lawyer.

"My view is that there was a massive coverup," he said.

[paul_84]

brother this kinda of stuff should be sent to newspaper agencies ..add me on msn if u have it ---identity_unknown01@hotmail.com cmon ppl maybe we can make a difference

[buddasingh]

Source Globe and Mail Feb 26, 2003...

Testimony about a possible cover-up of crucial evidence in the Air-India case and about unexplained tampering with sealed information in a police file was heard shortly before a controversial plea-bargain deal was struck with Inderjit Singh Reyat.

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The court prohibited the media from reporting Mr. Drozda's testimony until Tuesday. Mr. Justice Ian Bruce Josephson of the B.C. Supreme Court lifted the publication ban in response to an application from The Globe and Mail.

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During Mr. Drozda's testimony, the court also heard that an unidentified person had tampered with two boxes of sealed documents from the Narita trial.

The boxes, stored at Vancouver RCMP headquarters, contained copies of documents setting out information disclosed to Mr. Reyat's defence lawyers during the Narita trial.

Mr. Drozda testified that the boxes were sealed in 1992 after the trial. But on the day before he testified in the Air-India pretrial hearing, Mr. Drozda discovered the seal was broken. Some material had been removed and other material had been inserted, he said.

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---> QUESTIONS --

WHY HAVE THE MEDIA NOT PRESSURED RCMP TO ANSWER TO THIS? THEIR OWN OFFICER TESTIFIED THAT THERE HAS BEEN TAMPERING!!!

THIS IS JUST BEFORE THE CURRENT TRIAL, NOT 15 YEARS AGO... SO WE HAVE CSIS ERASED TAPES AND RCMP TAMPERED EVIDENCE.... FOR THE BIGGEST CRIME ON CANADIAN SOIL... AMAZING COINCIDENCE?..., I THINK NOT

DID THE RCMP THEMSELVES DECIDE THAT THEY DON'T NEED TO INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES -- ARE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND JUSTICE MINISTER ASLEEP AT HER DESKS?

IF BOLAN LOVES THE VICTIMS FAMILIES AS SHE SUGGESTS WHY IS SHE NOT HOT ON THE PATH??

shame on self claimed "moderate" bird brained spokespeople who also turn a blind eye to something of this magnitude... it shows they used air india victims as a platform for their own agendas...

[Mahavir]

This is shocking. Why hasn't the media gone berserk with this information like it usually does?

[buddasingh]

Vancouver news paper today...

Air India bombing case requires a public inquiry

Ian Mulgrew

I find the RCMP and federal spin-doctoring of the Air India verdict to be unseemly and the attempt to quash a public inquiry puzzling.

The so-called "star" witness was found to have told a pack of lies and to have fabricated a supporting journal.

B.C. Supreme Court Judge Ian Josephson said her claims of love for accused businessman Ripudaman Malik "lack credulity."

He said she only feigned memory loss when confronted with obvious contradictions in her evidence. (She said, for instance, that she spoke on the phone every day with Malik between September 1996 and January 1997, but the record showed they spoke only once.)

And after she was fired, the judge said, the woman had considerable reason to harbour animosity towards him. In short, Josephson said, she was out to get him and "crafted a false confession."

He itemized numerous falsehoods and ruled that, in the core of her evidence, "she was not truthful." If he was able to see through her, why were police and prosecutors not warned of potential duplicity?

This witness is being protected even though she was found to have invented a horrific story that put two men through a nightmare, the families of the victims through an excruciating experience and the legal system through an expensive charade.

Here are just a few questions a public inquiry could ask:

Why didn't police check out her claims of telephone harassment? Malik's phones were tapped, police could have easily corroborated her claim. Why didn't they scrutinize her journal? It contained egregious errors cribbed from two books and newspaper accounts.

Investigators and prosecutors believed her, I think, for a very human reason: It staggers the imagination that someone would lie about something this grave.

That she passed a lie detector test speaks of pathology. That she engaged in this elaborate ruse is why the trial was a travesty.

Still, an inquiry could determine whether the Crown should continue to protect her or prosecute her for this unbelievable mischief. It also could adjudicate whether compensation should be given to the wrongfully accused.

This is not a prosecution that was grounded in good faith -- there is a live question of malice.

Other issues demand an accounting, too. What was the role of the Indian government in this tragedy? Let's not forget that 20 years ago there were serious suggestions this bloody act of terrorism was the product of agents provocateurs, or perhaps New Delhi, to discredit the growing violent Sikh separatist movement.

In spite of Public Safety Minister Anne McClellan's statements that CSIS's role was investigated, the parliamentary oversight committee was reined in by appeals from the solicitor-general not to jeopardize the criminal investigation. It is time for our spy agency to explain why its agents acted the way they did and with whom they were working.

And, after 20 years, I'd still like to know why the spy agency shut down the only prosecution of putative mastermind Talwinder Parmar, saying the case jeopardized national security.

Canadians should also be told whether we are spending enough on security, and an inquiry could examine that, too. In this case, a lack of competent translators and other resource issues plagued CSIS. Similarly, the initial RCMP investigation and prosecution of Parmar and his associates were Mickey Mouse.

The Mounties trooped off to see the movie Gandhi in the hope of learning something about Sikhism. The first and most important interrogation of bomb-maker Inderjit Reyat, in my opinion, was botched.

The manslaughter deal with Inderjit Reyat, the convicted bomb-maker, and the rationale for it, has not been fully explained.

I could go on. There are many reasons to hold a public inquiry into this case. I honestly don't understand the resistance, and cost seems such a threadbare excuse in the face of 331 dead.

Perhaps the Indo-Canadian community is right -- it really does have something to do with colour. They remember former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called the Indian government to extend condolences before he similarly comforted our neighbours, friends and kin who were murdered.

I think there should be an inquiry, if only to educate Canadians about how, two decades ago, Ottawa and its agencies acted badly. At the very least, it might put to rest some long-held suspicions and fears.

[uk_khalistani]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182

This link needs to be given a Sikh side make over. Seems like someone is hell bent on blaming this act on Sikhs when clearly it points to the involvement of Indian govt

[buddasingh]

BTW, the report above (Ian Mulgrew) is exceptional and stunning progress for Vancouver media.

Right now the Air India media, essentially one feeding source for most of the world, Kim Bolan Vancouver Sun who is complicit in this crime against the sikh community and sikh individuals... is desperately trying to redraft the spin they want others to repeat.

They want people to believe that investigation troubles including CSIS erased tapes is the main reason that there was not a guilty verdict. They want this because heads will roll if they lose control of the spin and other media start pushing in the direction that Ian Mulgrew is pushing here. Well established institutions will not be voluntarily investigating themselves or be investigated by other well established institutions. The irony is one of the biggest weapons used to abuse sikhs "the media" may now be the very weapon to bring down those involved.

The stage is now set so that institutions including the Vancouver Sun's Kim Bolan, RCMP, CSIS and CROWN will have a very difficult time squeezing their way out of hard questions.

It is interesting that the story came to print suggesting definite malice but excusing the RCMP and prosecution. The excuse is very very weak, put in there by editors or the author to "not go too far". The story points toward the obvious conclusion that institutions are to blame. There is simply no way that the institutions mentioned above were not aware of the blatent and outrageous contradictions of the star witness. In fact they went to great lengths to prosecute innocent men.